Power outages in Texas force Samsung to shut down semiconductor plant
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- Anonymous
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- 19 Feb 2021
sixtymes, 19 Feb 2021enjoy those frozen windmills. idiots switched too much perc... moreWindmills work just fine throughout the Northern US, Canada, and Europe.
So does Texas just not know how to operate them? Or, more likely, are you just grossly misinformed?
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- sixtymes
- kvH
- 19 Feb 2021
enjoy those frozen windmills. idiots switched too much percentage to the wind farms, now they are frozen and people are stranded in cold freezing weather.
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- 63x
- 19 Feb 2021
Gandalfdenvite, 18 Feb 2021Texas fossil fueled natural gas plants can not handle this ... moreLeave mother nature ( cows ) alone. She's doing everything she can to regenerate this world while man made toxicity counteracts that by wrecking the most significant toll on earth...
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- 63x
- 19 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021Standard solar panels are built to retain at least 80% capa... moreYou give this guarantee on behalf of all manufacturers out there? Including the knock-offs?
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- 63x
- 19 Feb 2021
AnonD-762416, 18 Feb 2021Battery backup for the entire state of Texas? That sounds r... moreDefinitely reasonable and possible... to a certain limit 😉
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- Anonymous
- 4Am
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021Solar is an ok backup for a personal residence for the esse... moreStandard solar panels are built to retain at least 80% capacity for at least 25 years
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- Anonymous
- m2J
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021Solar is an ok backup for a personal residence for the esse... moreWhat exactly you think the solar panels are made of that they would only last 10 years ?
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- Anonymous
- m2J
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021The primary circumstance is still that the state is run by ... moreClimate will change all the time but it's not like humans have anything to do with it. There are too many things that affect our climate that we have no clue about yet but we think that we are already so advanced that we know that humans are causing the global warming and so on. Seriously like our planet is millions of years old and have had several ice ages. Climate is changing all the time and we need to just adjust to it as we are on here on the ride only. Global warming have been from the time the ice age ended and started the era of warming and it will last as long as next phase of global cooling starts
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- Anonymous
- m2J
- 18 Feb 2021
Andreidinutu, 18 Feb 2021Well here in Romania it's been about -16C max, not sur... moreit was In Estonia
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- Anonymous
- q3S
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021The primary circumstance is still that the state is run by ... moreSeriously? That's your argument? I don't even want to get political about this because extreme weather conditions can happen anywhere and take down power. Hurricanes happen, blizzards happen. California has rolling blackouts every summer. Yeesh
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- Gandalfdenvite
- RqR
- 18 Feb 2021
Texas fossil fueled natural gas plants can not handle this cold weather they can not produce any electricity at all when it is this cold! Fossil fuels, and methane burping cows, created the global climate disasters, and Texans love fossil fuels and eating cows more than anyone else in the world!
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- mojojojo
- IWV
- 18 Feb 2021
JG01, 18 Feb 2021I live in Texas...this outage is no joke. There was power, ... morei hope you and all people there doing okay. i cant imagine how to survive winter without electricity.
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- Anonymous
- NN7
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021I'm going to stop you at "Wind turbines froze.&qu... moreYeah, Canadian cars are built to a higher standard that's for sure. A little extra insurance is a thing called a block heater that for some r-tarded reason is not standard on cars sold in Canada. They make a world of difference. Couple that with a battery blanket and you're golden.
I'll stop you right there and let you know that the weather in central Canada has been ridiculous. Extreme changes one day to the next. Not -25 > 5 but not far off.
And I don't think it's the cold air that's causing the power outage but rather the build of ice / snow on the power lines which causes them to fail. Happens where I live a couple of times once the cold weather moves out and the higher moisture levels weigh down the lines.
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- Anonymous
- j%t
- 18 Feb 2021
Prototype, 17 Feb 2021This is a lesson for them, instal solar panels and batterys... moreSolar is an ok backup for a personal residence for the essentials but I would imagine the plot of land required to gather enough solar energy would be double the size of the actual plant's footprint.
Also, the cost to maintain said system is very very costly. Everything has a life span and I believe batteries for these systems are 6 - 8 years and the solar panels themselves are 10 years +/-. Not really worth it as a backup.
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- Anonymous
- yZR
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021My point is that it's combination of circumstances. I... moreThe primary circumstance is still that the state is run by climate change deniers, who refuse to admit that climate can change and therefore refuse to prepare for any possible extremes in weather.
Then point the blame at everyone other than themselves. The party of zero personal responsibility.
- Andreidinutu
- nDN
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021Just to say that 9 days ago was -29c in here too North-East... moreWell here in Romania it's been about -16C max, not sure where you live that it was that cold
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- Anonymous
- R0G
- 18 Feb 2021
Texas should have burnt more coal to keep the ice away!
Why wont anyone think of the children and sell Texas some of that good old rootin tootin fresh, clean coal??
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- Anonymous
- KiT
- 18 Feb 2021
need more unclear powerplant, use Thorium this time to be more safe
solar panel got covered and unstable, wind turbine expensive and not reliable
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- Anonymous
- m2J
- 18 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 18 Feb 2021My point is that it's combination of circumstances. I... moreIt happens a lot in Sydney Australia where in winter is ice rain. This year my country have seen it too. It's basically water drop that in air is liquid and when it touched something then instantly freeze to ice